TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pringle,Yolana
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Psychiatry and Decolonisation in Uganda
T2  - Mental Health in Historical Perspective
SN  - 9781137600950
AV  - DT1-3415 
U1  - 960 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - London
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan UK, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Africa—History
KW  - Oral history
KW  - World history
KW  - Medicine—History
KW  - African History
KW  - Oral History
KW  - World History, Global and Transnational History
KW  - History of Medicine
N1  - 1. Introduction -- 2. A Place on Mulago Hill -- 3. The ‘Africanisation’ of Psychiatry -- 4. ‘Mass Hysteria’ in the Wake of Decolonisation -- 5. The Psychiatry of Poverty -- 6. Mobility, Power, and International Mental Health -- 7. The ‘Trauma’ of War and Violence -- 8. Conclusion.-Bibliography -- Index; Open Access
N2  - This open access book investigates psychiatry in Uganda during the years of decolonisation. It examines the challenges facing a new generation of psychiatrists as they took over responsibility for psychiatry at the end of empire, and explores the ways psychiatric practices were tied to shifting political and development priorities, periods of instability, and a broader context of transnational and international exchange. At its heart is a question that has concerned psychiatrists globally since the mid-twentieth century: how to bridge the social and cultural gap between psychiatry and its patients? Bringing together archival research with oral histories, Yolana Pringle traces how this question came to dominate both national and international discussions on mental health care reform, including at the World Health Organization, and helped spur a culture of experimentation and creativity globally. As Pringle shows, however, the history of psychiatry during the years of decolonisation remained one of marginality, and ultimately, in the context of war and violence, the decolonisation of psychiatry was incomplete
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60095-0
ER  -